By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
For about five years, Von Bortz and Amy Smith have lived in rural Larimer County on property where they run a sanctuary for farm animals. The location is good: It’s close to Fort Collins and Colorado State University, home to one of the country’s top veterinary sch...
By Bruce Schreiner and Jim Salter
Kentucky hardest hit as death toll expected to climb
The Associated Press
MAYFIELD, KY. » A monstrous tornado, carving a track that could rival the longest on record, ripped across the middle of the U.S. in a stormfront that killed dozen...
By Drew Costley
The Associated Press
Researchers say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by recent reductions in emissions from vehicles.
Harvard University researchers who study the environment and public health examine...
By Curt Anderson
The Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. » Normally giving food to wild animals is considered off limits, but the dire situation in Florida with more than 1,000 manatees dying from starvation due to manmade pollution is leading officials to consider an unprecedented feedi...
By Vail Daily
The Interstate 70 corridor has two new carpool apps designed to reduce traffic congestion by connecting drivers and riders headed to Colorado’s ski resorts. The community-oriented platforms feature downloadable apps connecting drivers headed to resorts and various mountain locations w...
By Lawrence Ulrich
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The redoubtable Rivian R1T, the first crusher in a coming wave of electric pickups, can soar unscathed over gnarly boulders, hitch an 11,000-pound load and scorch 60 mph in about 3.5 seconds. The truck brings everything and the kitchen sink, with...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
RESERVE, LA. » Michael Coleman’s house is the last one standing on his tiny street, squeezed between a sprawling oil refinery whose sounds and smells keep him up at night and a massive grain elevator that covers his pickup in dust and,...
Question draws mix of researchers to search 3,000 feet deep in the Pacific
By Annie Roth
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A young female mammoth was wandering long ago near what would become the Central Coast of California, when her life came to an untimely end. Although she died on land, her massive bod...
By Corinne Purtill
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Brynn Kimber, a research scientist at the University of Washington who works in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Mammal Laboratory, has spent a lot of time analyzing audio data recorded in the icy waters north of Alask...
By Livia Albeck-Ripka
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PACIFIC GROVE, CALIF. » On a recent Sunday, I found myself among a crowd of hushed humans in a eucalyptus grove near Monterey, our necks craned toward the tree canopy.
Above us, thousands of Western monarch butterflies were clustered on branc...
By Sabrina Imbler
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The male Bornean rock frog cannot scream over the sound of a waterfall. Instead, he threatens other frogs with his feet. The frog intimidates his male competitors with a can-can-like gesture: kicking his leg up into the air, fully extendin...
By Cara Buckley
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WADING RIVER, N.Y. » If Bill Jacobs were a petty man, or a less religious one, he might look through the thicket of flowers, bushes and brambles that encircle his home and see enemies all around. For to the north, and to the south, and to the west a...
By Maria Cramer
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About 50 days after the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands erupted in September, unleashing lava flows and destroying homes, churches and stores, a beekeeper returned to one of the devastated villages to see what the volcano had done...
By Christopher Flavelle
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WASHINGTON » The new infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden includes almost $50 billion to protect communities against climate change, the largest such investment in U.S. history and a recognition that the effects of warming are ou...
By Aritz Parra and Emilio Morenatti
The Associated Press
LAS MANCHAS, CANARY ISLANDS » They come with eagle-eyed drones and high-precision instruments. Aided by satellites, they analyze gas emissions and the flows of molten rock. On the ground, they collect samples of the tiniest particles...
By Sabrina Imbler
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As the pandemic put a spotlight on scientific research, people around the world gained trust in science and scientists, according to a survey released Monday.
Results from the public opinion poll, in a report published by the Wellcome Tru...

By Clifford Krauss
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HOUSTON » Exxon Mobil said Monday that it aimed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operations in oil and gas fields in West Texas and New Mexico by 2030.
The announcement is part of Exxon’s previously announ...
By Raymond Zhong
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This is a story about one of those unsung forces that quietly keep the world running. It is a story about the clockwork interconnectedness of modern civilization, about how disturbances in one part of the planet can kick up storms in another.
This...
By Ian Austen
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PRINCETON, BRITISH COLUMBIA
» With light drizzle in the air, a young woman wiped away tears as she stood on the veranda of a newly renovated gray and white house. Its toilets and other plumbing fixtures sat beside her. Most of the house’s contents we...
By Stanley Reed
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One thing is certain when officials from OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing countries meet by teleconference Thursday to decide how much oil to produce in January they will want to try to make sure that last Friday’s sudden, sharp collapse in oil ...
